Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 9th Sep 2008 08:52 UTC
When China launched its first microprocessor, the Godson 1 in 2002, it wasn't much of a competitor to what Intel and AMD had to offer. The 64bit Godson 2, released in 2005, still didn't worry the Western chip makers, but the chip did start to pop up here and there outside of China. Expect to see a lot more of them in the coming years, as the Godson 3 promises to be a chip that can compete head on with the big ones: quad-core, eight core version in the pipeline, and 200 extra instructions aiding in x86 compatibility.
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2005-07-06
x86 compatibility is fine for joe sixpack who fear to use another thing then popular cpu
hope many linux distribution will use it
bty... why nobody use sun gpl cpu?
*shrug* SPARC IIe was an ok processor, it had a lower power foot print, I'm surprised no one has come forward and attempted to make it even more low powered. Then again, I guess it is alot easier to do something from the ground up than taken an out of date idea and retrofit it to todays requirements.